[Movie Script]Jane Eyre

                                  JANE EYRE

Written by

Moira Buffini

Adapted from the novel by

Charlotte Bronte

2ND DRAFT
6TH MARCH 2008

EXT. A MIDSUMMER DAWN. THORNFIELD - THE GROUNDS.

First light. Jane Eyre is running across a meadow, flushed
and breathless; the hem of her plain, black dress soaked
with dew. She carries a shawl and has a small bag of
belongings over her shoulder.

She trips, falls to her knees; looks back. Expressive eyes,
open features. She is desperate. We see the house she is
running from; a Jacobean battlemented mansion.

Her need to escape is so great that she crawls forward
until she is able to raise herself to her feet. She runs.

She reaches an antique stile by a brook. She lifts herself
on to it. She lands on the road. And runs.

I/E. DAY. A ROADSIDE/COACH.

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[Movie Script]Jacobs Ladder

"JACOB'S LADDER"

by

Bruce Joel Rubin

EXT. VIETNAM - DUSK

A swarm of helicopters swoops out of a yellow sky and deposits an army
of men over a Vietnamese hillside.

The SOLDIERS scramble over the terraced rice paddies for the protection
of the jungle. Falling into coulmns, like strands of soldier ants,
seventy-five men, at combat readiness, assemble on the edge of a
sweltering wilderness.

It is dusk. The mood is lazy, soporific. Members of one platoon huddle
close to the ground smoking a joint.

JERRY
Strong stuff.

ROD
(to JACOB, a soldier
squatting several yards
away)
Hey, Professor, how many times can
you shit in an hour?

GEORGE
Don't bug 'im.

DOUG
Where are those gooks already?

FRANK
Some offensive. I don't even think
they're out there.

PAUL
Jesus, this grass is something else.

JACOB SINGER returns to the group, pulling up his pants.

ROD

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